Less Internet, More Mobile For Latinos

Less Internet, More Mobile For Latinos

Mary Mata February 9, 2011

Latinos are less likely than whites to have a home Internet connection — especially broadband — but more likely than whites to access the Internet, email or instant messages on […]

NewsTaco To Go: Foreclosures, Toyota, PATRIOT Act, Roosters and Catholics

Mary Mata

There’s some heavy stuff in your NewsTaco To Go this morning — foreclosures are up, cockfighting and the PATRIOT Act — then there’s a Catholic app and relief that Toyota’s […]

Undocumented Smuggling? There’s an App for That

NewsTaco February 8, 2011

Prosaic as it’s come to sound, it’s true. A company in Boston called Owlchemy Labs has developed a game called “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration” where the object is to cross […]

Latinos Poised To Be Perfect New Media Consumers

Mary Mata February 4, 2011

Media will not be consumed on TV or computers we know them in the future. Even now, smartphones and tablets are increasingly peoples’ gateways to the Internet, and by extension, […]

Latinos Love Smartphones

Mary Mata February 3, 2011

A recent study from Nielsen found that about a third of cell phone users in the U.S., 31%, have smartphones with Internet enabled operating systems, and this percentage is even higher […]

BBC Blocks Racist Video – A Look at the Mexican Car

NewsTaco February 2, 2011

You can check it out for yourself. NewsTaco posted the incredibly vulgar segment of the Top Gear program (with a final “mme,” if you’re British) yesterday. But sometime in the […]

Google Focuses On Latino Market

Mary Mata February 1, 2011

Google wants to get its hands on the Latino market and it has a plan of action to do so. The company has created a “specialist team” to focus on […]

Facebook Actually Makes Us More Social

Mary Mata January 31, 2011

Using Facebook online actually makes us more social offline — at least according to a study from the University of Texas at Austin. The New York Times reports that Facebook […]

IRS’s Phone App Helps Track Taxes

Mary Mata January 27, 2011

The IRS has launched a new application for iPhones and Androids called IRSToGo, which allows the user to basically track their tax return. The app is free and specifically helps […]

NewsTaco To Go: iPhone, Economy, Obama and Breast Cancer

Mary Mata January 26, 2011

A good news roundup this morning, with a list of the Oscar nominees, affordable iPhones and the economy. Verizon’s iPhone will be available to consumers at a rate of $30 […]